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The history of judicial hanging in Britain
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/
6142/hanging1.html
A detailed, and at times gory, account of judicial hanging in Britain. The website, which includes images of real executions, ranges over the whole subject, from the places of execution to the methods used, right through to the abolition of hanging in the 1960s.

Crime and punishment through time: Industrial Britain 1820-1900
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/
crime_punishment2_industrial.htm
History Channel GCSE notes covering crime, punishment, prisons, police and reform in Victorian Britain.

Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REfry.htm
Spartacus educational notes about the devout Quaker and prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry.

H M Prison Service
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk
Website of H M Prison Service for England and Wales, including detailed information about prisons today.

Prison Reform Trust
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
Website of reforming charity with range of material about modern prisons. Includes an opportunity to see what it's like inside prison with films and interviews from Dorchester prison.

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